Throughout human history, there has always been a place where the quiet ones could excel. A domain where deep thinking mattered more than small talk, where careful analysis outweighed charisma, and where the quality of your work spoke louder than the volume of your voice. That place has been engineering. From the mathematicians of ancient…
Tag: development
Specify: The Most Important Skill in AI-Driven Development
If you take one thing from this entire series, let it be this: the quality of AI-generated code is bounded by the quality of your specification. No amount of model capability, prompt engineering tricks, or iteration can overcome a vague specification. The ceiling of what AI can produce for you is set by the clarity…
The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers
When I look back at the history of software, one pattern emerges with remarkable consistency: the promise to simplify software creation, to make it cheaper, and ultimately to eliminate the need for programmers altogether. This is not a new idea. It has been the driving ambition of our industry since the 1960s. And while each…
AI-Powered Fixed-Cost Development: A New Model for Agencies
Software development has always carried an uncomfortable truth: nobody really knows how long it will take. Clients want certainty. They want a number, a deadline, a budget they can plan around. Agencies and independent consultants want to deliver that certainty, but they have learned through painful experience that software estimation is more art than science….
The Future of Language Frameworks in an AI-Driven Development Era
As artificial intelligence increasingly writes the code that powers our digital world, we’re standing at a fascinating crossroads in software development history. The fundamental question looming over our industry is deceptively simple yet profoundly complex: if AI is writing our code, do we still need the elaborate conventions, configurations, and architectural patterns that have defined…
A Love Letter to CoffeeScript and HAML: When Rails Frontend Development Was Pure Joy
The author reflects on the nostalgia of older coding practices, specifically with Ruby on Rails, CoffeeScript, and HAML. They appreciate the simplicity, conciseness, and readability of these technologies compared to modern alternatives like TypeScript. While acknowledging TypeScript’s superiority in type safety, they express a longing for the elegant developer experience of the past.
AngularJS ngInclude directive and scope inheritance
ngInclude directive and scope There are many times when you want to include a html snippet code from another file but preserve the scope of it. It is usually when you have different form fields for the various objects and you want to have a global controller that oversees the updating of different forms. So if you want…
How to record iPhone screen
To record iPhone screen has never been easier Developing great new iOS application requires not just a usable application, but also a great video presentation of it. How it works, basic usability tricks to make users want to get your new application which you spent numerous hours to make it perfect. If you are working…
Conquering Fear
What really keeps you from living your dreams? What problem is most dominant in peoples lives? The answer is: FEAR! People live every day in fear. Fear of losing their wealth, fear of losing their loved ones, fear of making the wrong decisions, fear of being themselves, fear of growing up, fear of making a…